Books about adventure, animals and more.

Books about adventure, animals and more.

Non-Fiction

Journey of the Red Wolf

(Cobblehill, April 1996)
Follow the magnificent and rare red wolf from the brink of extinction, to captivity, then back into wild. For many years Roland was the Red Wolf Species coordinator. An insider’s look at how animals are reintroduced into the wild.

In the Forest with the Elephants

coauthor
Dr. Michael J. Schmidt, DVM
(Harcourt Brace)

Deep in the Myanmar Forest, Won Lin spots his elephant, Toe Lai, and calls, “La, la, la.” Toe Lai fans out his ears, takes a last bite of grass, then lumbers toward Won Lin. It’s time to go to work.

A century ago there were more than a hundred thousand elephants in Asia; today there are just thirty-five thousand. Only Myanmar–where nearly one-third of Asia’s remaining elephants live– can boast a healthy elephant population. Thousands of elephants roam in the wild there, and thousands more work with humans to harvest valuable wood. As Won Lin and Toe Lai’s story reveals, this working partnership between elephants and humans may be the key to preserving the elephants themselves as well as their forest home.

Sea Otter Rescue(Cobblehill, 1990)
In 1989 a supertanker named the Exxon Valdez ran into Bligh Reef spilling 6 million gallons of oil into the pristine waters of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. This books recounts the heroic efforts to save Alaska’s sea otters from this terrible disaster.Order now at:

Inside the Zoo Nursery(Cobblehill, 1993)In this book Roland takes you behind the scenes at a zoo nursery. Why are baby animals taken from their mothers? What are lion cubs fed? How do zoos reintroduce these human-raised babies back to their own kind?

African Elephants

(Lerner, 1995) For younger readers.

Part of Lerner’s “Early Bird Nature Books” series. Go to Africa with Roland and learn all about the largest land mammal on earth. Why do elephants have trunks instead of noses? How long is a female pregnant? What do elephants use their trunks for?